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Attacking Multicore CPUs
Ant writes "The Register reports that the world of current multi-core central processing units (CPUs) just entered is facing a serious threat.
A security researcher at Cambridge disclosed a new class of vulnerabilities that takes advantage of concurrency to bypass security protections such as anti-virus software
The attack is based on the assumption that the software that interacts with the kernel can be used without interference. The researcher, Robert Watson, showed that a carefully written exploit can attack in the window when this happens, and literally change the "words" that they are exchanging.
Even if some of these dark aspects of concurrency were already known, Watson proved that real attacks can be developed, and showed that developers have to fix their code. Fast..."
You see, Its these kind of computing professionals that make me feel like a fraud when people call me a computer genius.
Stop raising the bar you tool!
Perfect, another moron who thinks idiot is plural.
I'm a viroligist, you insensitive clod, and besides the obvious plural for virii is viruseses. Duh.
Congratulations! This is the first time I've ever seen someone use nested parentheses in non-code. You win a set of extra parentheses keys (because (as I've noticed) you seem to use them a lot).
You must be new here, 'cause I see it all the time.
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Fuck no. I could deploy a thousand Linux machines and never have to use the same distro/kernel/config twice. Linux rulez man!
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